Designed for Flight: Poems - Couverture souple

Fraser

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0810152436 ISBN 13 : 9780810152434

Editeur : Northwestern University Press, 2014

Synopsis

Designed for Flight both continues and enlarges the exploration of the rhythms of our emotional lives undertaken in Gregory Fraser's first two collections. A master of metaphor, Fraser works magic within tightly controlled forms, loading lines with surprising juxtapositions and changes of direction. Taken together, the poems trace the sometimes instant, sometimes decades-long movement from incomprehensible loss and grief to rueful reflection and, if we're lucky, uneasy accommodation. Casting a sharply observant eye on past selves, always steering clear of simple sentiment, the speaker in this collection looks back with bitter irony and forgiveness in equal measure. Against the fears and frustrations of childhood, the dissolution of a doomed relationship, and the distance between the hoped for and the actual, Fraser's poems offer the imagination's capacity for endless invention and the compensatory pleasures of art.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

GREGORY FRASER, a professor in the Department of English at the University of West Georgia, is the author of two previous poetry collections, Answering the Ruins (Northwestern, 2009) and Strange Pietà (2003). He is also the coauthor, with Chad Davidson, of the textbooks Writing Poetry (2009) and Analyze Anything (2012).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Northwestern University Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0810152436
• ISBN 13: 9780810152434
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 88
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